Builder Robert W. Wood dies

Robert William Wood, a co-founder of Prowswood Co. homebuilders, died Friday, Jan. 28, 2005, surrounded by his family. He was 78.

Mr. Wood graduated from East High and the University of Utah, where he earned a degree in marketing. He served an Argentina mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He married Barbara Jacobs in 1949 in the Salt Lake Temple and served in church leadership roles including the bishopric, stake presidency and temple sealer.

In 1959, Mr. Wood joined Dick Prows to create Prowswood Co., whose developments include Cobble Creek, Brookstone, The Springs of Country Woods and Three Fountains, the first family condominium west of the Mississippi.

Mr. Wood served as president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Salt Lake, marketing committee chairman for the National Home Builders Association and chairman of the Salt Lake County Housing Authority.

He received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Apartment Association.

Mr. Wood spent nearly 50 years as vice president of the board of Dan's Foods. He also was a member of the Utah Transit Authority's Board of Directors and was a member of the School and Institutional Trust Lands advisory board.

Funeral services are Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, at noon at the Cottonwood 14th Ward Chapel, 5165 S. Highland Drive (2080 East). Viewings are scheduled at the chapel 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. the day of the service, and Thursday, Feb. 3, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Wasatch Lawn Mortuary, 3401 S. Highland Drive. Interment, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, same address.